Karl Capek’s 1921 expressionistic drama-satire about scientists manufacturing humanoids to perform mankind’s most menial tasks has long been hailed as one of Czechoslovakia’s greatest plays. The theme of total technology in civilization and its many implications is still highly appropriate for contemporary audiences.

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Eugene O’Neill’s last completed play continues the tragic tale of the haunted Tyrones dramatized in his masterpiece Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Mixing comic and tragic scenes into A Moon For The Misbegotten, O’Neill relates the final weeks of Jamie Tyrone’s tortured life. He befriends a poor farm girl and her irascible father. The girl tries to bestow her love on the guilt-ridden, alcoholic Jamie Tyrone, but he lacks the capacity to receive, let alone return, her love. A moving play by America’s greatest dramatist.

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William Shakespeare’s 1611 romance takes place on the enchanted island inhabited by the magician Prospero, the spirit Ariel, and the half-monster Caliban. The source of countless allegorical interpretations ranging from the political to the biographical to the theological, “The Tempest” has long been regarded as one of Shakespeare’s most beautiful and accomplished, if also mysterious, plays.

Note: Special thanks to Mike Whelan (’83) who was to have played Caliban until illness necessitates his leaving the cast and to Mike Abbott (’85) for stepping into the role.

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Commedia dell’arte, the 16th and 17th century Italian street theater was brought to life in this original play by Wabash College Theater Department Chairman James Fisher. The play makes use of the traditional comic business (lazzi) and the stock characters (Pantalone, Il Dottore, Il Capitano, Arlecchino) of the beloved Italian theater that greatly influenced the plays of Shakespeare and Moliere.

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